Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Winners–Challenge #53–For Those Special Women In Your Life

Thank you for joining us last week for our “Special Women In Your Life” challenge.  We loved seeing all the many ways you incorporate sentiments into your creations. 

You might want to take a moment to check out all the fantastic entries into our first children’s challenge.  We were blown away by the talent and creativity shown by these crafty kids.

Before we get to the winners, I have a couple of reminders.  

Don’t forget we have a Design Team call going on until May 23rd.  You can see the post with all the details here

We are also celebrating Sentimental Sundays first anniversary!  To celebrate the anniversary, you have several chances to win a digital sentiment of you choice from the Raindrop Echo Designs Whimsy Stamps Digital Collection! All you have to do is visit the participating DT members' blogs and leave a comment on their Sentimental Sundays post for this week. That means that if you visit leave a comment for Amy, Ann E, Ceal, Cheryl, Chris, Joanna, Lisa, Melissa, Nicole, Shirley, Tameko, and Tracey, you will get a chance to win one digital sentiment set! Easy!  See the challenge post from Sunday for the details.

 

Now on to the winners…

Here are our random winners from the last challenge:

#110 - Renata

Our first sponsor is the talented Deedee Anderson of Deedee's Digis. Deedee is kindly providing a $10 gift certificate to spend in the Deedee's Digis store.


 

#18 – Lori Ng

Our second sponsor is the marvelous Ann Vento of Raindrop Echo Designs. This prize will be four INDIVIDUAL sentiment sets from the Raindrop Echo Designs Whimsy Stamps Digital Collection. If you like the weekly freebies offered here, please visit the store to see even more! We also offer custom digital designs at an affordable price with tutorials on how to use them.


Congratulations!  Please email us at sentimentalsundays@raindropecho.com to get details about your prize :)

And here are the Top Three chosen by the DT members:

#30 – Ira

#57 – Melissa Bove

#20 – Lalkygirl

 

Congratulations! Please feel free to grab the blinkie on the sidebar (the code you need is below it) and display it proudly on your blogs! You earned it :)

Congratulations to all our winners!

Make sure to come back on Sunday for a new challenge and freebie :)

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Challenge #54 - Anything Goes!

Welcome to another Sentimental Sunday!

Thanks so much to everyone who played along in our Mother's Day/For a Woman challenge last week. Your entries were amazing! We also had great entries from some very talented youngsters. If you have some time, we would love if you visited their entries from the last challenge :) Be sure to stop back on Tuesday and see who our random winner is and who has been chosen to be in our Top 3!


Before we get to today's challenge and samples, we would like to mention that we are celebrating the Sentimental Sundays one year anniversary! The actual anniversary of the first challenge was April 18, 2010, but the first design team members joined the blog on May 10, 2010. And can you believe it? We still have SIX members of the original design team who have been with the blog for over one year! Let's give them a round of applause :)

To celebrate the anniversary, you have several chance to win a digital sentiment of your choice from Raindrop Echo Designs Whimsy Stamps Digital Collection! All you have to do is visit the participating DT members' blogs and leave a comment on their Sentimental Sundays post for this week. That means that if you visit leave a comment for Amy, Ann E, Ceal, Cheryl, Chris, Joanna, Lisa, Melissa, Nicole, Shirley, Tameko, and Tracey, you will get a chance to win one digital sentiment set! Easy!

Speaking of the design team, we would love to add more members to the team! Please see THIS POST for more details. We're looking forward to seeing the applications!


Challenge Sponsor:
The prize for this challenge will be four INDIVIDUAL sentiment sets from the Raindrop Echo Designs Whimsy Stamps Digital Collection. If you like the weekly freebies offered here, please visit the store to see even more! We also offer custom digital designs at an affordable price with tutorials on how to use them.






This week's challenge is:
Anything Goes!
(plus a sentiment)

This week's challenge is Anything Goes!! - you are free to make whatever you want, with whatever you want - you just need to remember the sentiment! Our design team has been hard at work making some projects that we hope will provide some inspiration for you as you make your projects for our challenge:


Amy

Ann E.


Ceal

Cheryl

Chris

Joanna

Lisa

Melissa

Nicole

Shirley

Tameko

Tracey



Sentimental Sundays Weekly Freebie:
Freebie sentiments are available for one week only.  For more sentiments like this, please visit the Raindrop Echo Designs Sentiments Collection at Whimsy Stamps.
A special thank you to those who link back to the blog when using these sentiments!





When uploading to SCS, PCP, SNR, or other galleries, please use the keyword "sentimentalsundays54" Thank you!



Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Winners–Challenge #52–Let’s Get Punchy

Thank you for joining us last week for our “Let’s Get Punchy” challenge.  We loved all the wonderful and creative entries.

Don’t forget you have plenty of time to enter our Mother’s Day or for a special woman challenge.  We still would love to see kids get creative too.  Remember if they do, you will automatically receive two sentiments: Krafty Kids Sentiments and Mother's Day Sentiments. See the post from last Sunday for all the details.

Here are our random winners of the last challenge:

We had two challenge sponsors for our “Let’s Get Punchy Challenge”. 

First, is Heart Song Designs. The winner will receive their choice of 3 digital images from the Heart Song Designs store.

#14-Margreet

 

 

Our second sponsor is the marvelous Ann Vento of Raindrop Echo Designs. This prize will be four INDIVIDUAL sentiment sets from the Raindrop Echo Designs Whimsy Stamps Digital Collection. If you like the weekly freebies offered here, please visit the store to see even more! We also offer custom digital designs at an affordable price with tutorials on how to use them.

#23-Theresa P

Congratulations! As mentioned in the last challenge, The prize is four INDIVIDUAL sentiment sets from the Raindrop Echo Designs Digital Collection.  Please email us at sentimentalsundays@raindropecho.com to get details about your prize :)

And here's our Top Three chosen by the DT members:

#25-Betty

#28-Donna

#35-Patty

Congratulations! Please feel free to grab the blinkie on the sidebar (the code you need is below it) and display it proudly on your blogs! You earned it :)

Congratulations to all our winners!

Make sure to come back on Sunday for a new challenge and freebie :)

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Challenge #53 - For those Special Women in Your Life

Welcome to another Sentimental Sunday!

Thanks so much to everyone who played along in our Get Punchy challenge last week. Your entries were absolutely terrific! Be sure to stop back on Tuesday and see who our random winner is and who has been chosen to be in our Top 3! Also, we would like to say a fond farewell to a couple of DT members: Dorcas and Sylvia . It has been a true pleasure to have you two on the team and we wish you the best of luck with all your future endeavors! Thank you for sharing your beautiful creations on this blog :)

Now, on to today's festivities!


Challenge Sponsors:
We have two challenge sponsors this week. Our first sponsor is the talented Deedee Anderson of Deedee's Digis. The winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to spend in the Deedee's Digis store.


Our second sponsor is the marvelous Ann Vento of Raindrop Echo Designs. This prize will be four INDIVIDUAL sentiment sets from the Raindrop Echo Designs Whimsy Stamps Digital Collection. If you like the weekly freebies offered here, please visit the store to see even more! We also offer custom digital designs at an affordable price with tutorials on how to use them.





This week's challenge is:
Mother's Day/For a Woman

(see optional challenge below)
(plus a sentiment)

As usual, the design team has been hard at work creating some projects that we hope will inspire you to join the fun.

Amy

Ann E.

Ceal

Cheryl

Chris

Joanna

Kristina

Lisa

Sally

Shirley

Tracey

As we mentioned last week, we have an optional challenge for you to take up as well as chances to grab up two sentiment sets just for joining along!

Our optional challenge is: Craft with a child
All entries receive the Krafty Kids Sentiments for the crafty child and Mother's Day Sentiments for the crafty adult who helped them :)

We'd like to see the kids get creative too, and if they do, you will automatically receive two sentiments: Krafty Kids Sentiments and Mother's Day Sentiments. How do you receive the sentiments? Make sure you enter the child's creation in the SECOND InLinkz collection and make sure you enter in the correct email address. We will email you the sentiments as soon as possible! So gather your child, grandchild, niece, nephew, even a neighbor and get creative together! We find that bonding through art is a precious thing so please take advantage of it :)


We also have some very special guests joining us today!

This card was made by DT member Shirley's 8 year old Granddaughter Lauren:


This card was made by DT member Shirley's 13 year old Granddaughter Amber:

This card was made by DT member Cheryl's 9 year old daughter Liz
(be sure to click on the image and visit her blog!)

We want to thank our very special guest designers this week - great work Amber, Lauren and Liz!!!


Sentimental Sundays Weekly Freebie:
Freebie sentiments are available for one week only.  For more sentiments like this, please visit the Raindrop Echo Designs Sentiments Collection at Whimsy Stamps.
A special thank you to those who link back to the blog when using these sentiments!


When uploading to SCS, PCP, SNR, or other galleries, please use the keyword "sentimentalsundays53" Thank you!





Your Mother's Day/For a Woman entry here! Please include a sentiment.




Your crafty kid's entry here! A sentiment is not required, just have fun! We will email you the two sentiments as soon as we can.